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Oliver
on September 1, 2011 at 8:22 pm

Hi,

Thank you so much for the information from the website. I found the answers for many of my questions related to fitness.

I have a question: why do you recommend to avoid weight gainers? Being an ectomorph, I need a lot of carbohydrates and a little less proteins as well. The gainers are exactly for that.. If I would took whey protein, I couldn`t supplement my carbohydrates from my regular meal.

I am an ectomorph myself (but not an extreme one). I have 195 cm and 85 kg and my nutritionist recommended me to take weight gainers instead of whey protein. Now I use N-large2 from Prolab and I serve about 86 g of carbohydrates and 52g of proteins x 2/day.

I recommend avoiding weight gainers because weight gainers are made from poor quality carbs and proteins and because they tend to provide way too many calories that your body can handle. Of course in the ideal world, you should try to get your calories from whole foods. So I would say use weight gainers as a last resort, and not as a shortcut, if you understand what I mean.

Hey, being a hardgainer, as I’m sure you assumed, I work out every day and eat as much as I can every day. You say not to use Nitric Oxide boosters, and I was wondering why.. I use a pre workout for a boost (I work out at 7 eery morning) that contains an NO. I can assume that the energy stimulants would burn more fat than desired but aside from that, is it extremely frowned upon?